Autistic children have more neural connections than other children, new studies suggest

The brains of children with autism show more connections than the brains of typically developing children do. Also, the brains of individuals with the most severe social symptoms are also the most hyper-connected. These findings, published in two independent studies in the journal Cell Reports, challenge the prevailing notion in the field that autistic brains lack neural connections. ABC NewsRadio's Mandy Presland speaks to one of the scientists - California-based Stanford University research fellow Kaustubh Supekar.